Shit it is three... my bad. I know why I forgot, it's been so long, and I want to say it's been 6 or 7 years, but I'm not even sure... now I'm just waiting for Tri to be finished so I can binge watch it all at once.

Anyway, the US version wasn't bad, I still think it's pretty great, and Kick It Up is still a great song (and that entire scene was greatly improved with that song included), but I was just using the mashed togetherness of the movie as an example of how Digimon was treated by its US distributor.

Although, Digimon had it better than Sailor Moon did in terms of fucky edits. Lesbians turned into cousins because lesbians were offensive to western culture while incest... wasn't... and season 5 never aired here because of the whole "boys turn into girls" thing. So it could have been worse. I mean how many people remember Monster Rancher?

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DarkBluePhoenix wrote:I mean how many people remember Monster Rancher?

I do. Still got the ADV Films tapes from back in the day. I also remember watching most of the first season on Fox Family as a weekend long marathon. The big plot twist being that Moo, the big bad, turned out to be Holly's father *Hello Empire Strikes Back ripoff *.

Digimon Adventure Tri Movie 5This being shown on the big screen is just baffling to me, the poor level animation would barely be acceptable for TV-series standards. There is no theatrical quality in any aspect of its presentation. This is embarrassing for an anniversary project, compared to what Gundam and Pokemon are offering their fans in visual fidelity. (What can I say, I’m a bling bling bitch, I like my entertainment to be beautiful)But there is a silver lining, after the borderline incompetent writing of movie four, this time at least the writing is up to Digimon standards again. I do really love following those characters, and over all this resurrection doesn’t rape my childhood - which is something.

It still looks terrible, but man am I happy that at least the writing is competent again.7/10

robersora wrote:Digimon Adventure Tri Movie 5This being shown on the big screen is just baffling to me, the poor level animation would barely be acceptable for TV-series standards. There is no theatrical quality in any aspect of its presentation. This is embarrassing for an anniversary project, compared to what Gundam and Pokemon are offering their fans in visual fidelity.

Toei is doing this with all of their "nostalgia" works, Dragon Ball Super isn't faring much better, although they have managed to make Goku's new transformation fight look at least decent.

But there is a silver lining, after the borderline incompetent writing of movie four, this time at least the writing is up to Digimon standards again.

I don't really agree. These episodes offered a more satisfactory answer for concluding Tai's crisis of Courage, but jokes were consistently lame, and it otherwise had the same ratio of flaws.

Highlights for me are still Joe's crisis of Sincerity in the 2nd episode set, T.K.'s crisis of Hope in losing Patamon in the 3rd, and Maki Himekawa's non-too-subtle contrast with Sora in the 4th in respect to their mutual crisis of Love.

In this one, it's basically implied that Himekawa:

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...will be raped. Because those same creatures that appeared to her threatened to make Kari the bride of their king, and Himekawa is too "damaged" to resist.

Further, with Kari and Meiko's partners "merging", we're being fed a connection between Kari and Meiko that wasn't really established in the earlier episodes, or really this one. Mei and Sora, or hell, Mei and T.K. have a more firmly established relationship than these two.

I also have to balk at Mei being called "Digidestined; just like us!"

She's digidestined, sure, but where's her crest, hmmm? Meicoomon only gets digivolutions due to plot hax of having a shard of the shikon jew--, I mean horcru--- I mean apocalymon.

She's basically on the same level as Willis.

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Today I went back to my subbed Tri. viewing and saw episode 3 of part 3.

It was an almost exclusive Digimon partner episode and I loved every bit of not seeing the humans for a little while. Hikari turning into Homeostasis for the first time hearing her calm, serene voice out of M.A.O. was special. The whole reboot plan that Himekawa is cooking up seems to be like what John Hammond from Jurassic Park said about shutting down Isla Nublar's system, a calculated risk. So it's like damned if you do, damned if you don't.